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African American Vernacular English, Religion and Ethnicity

  • Kamwangamalu N
Palgrave Macmillan UK, (2010), 190-204
DOI: 10.1057/9780230304710_9
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Abstract

African American Vernacular English (AAVE), which is defined by Geneva Smitherman (1977: 32) as ‘European-American speech with Afro-American meaning, nuance, tone, and gesture’, has been investigated from various perspectives. Some scholars have focused...

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Kamwangamalu, N. M. (2010). African American Vernacular English, Religion and Ethnicity. In The Sociology of Language and Religion (pp. 190–204). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304710_9

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